If you want your container veggies to thrive, you can't use regular old soil. This recipe provides the right mix of nutrients ...

A common recommendation is to sterilize ordinary garden soil by baking it at 200 degrees Fahrenheit for 20 minutes. Not only is this inefficient, but it will make your house smell terrible.

Always use potting mix for houseplants and container plants, says Hancock. If adding to or mixing into raised beds, choose potting soil, also called garden or raised bed soil, which will be ...

Fill the container with soil. A commercial potting mix that drains well is best. You can make your own mix for larger containers (see above). If the mix seems too dense and heavy, add one-third ...

His bucket-in-a-bucket planter idea, made with one whole 5-gallon bucket and parts of another one, allows him to garden without worry. Voles and moles can’t get […] ...

Water your plants generously with compost tea, just like you would with regular water. Make sure they have good drainage to ...

Simply grate in some freshly grown cucumber, straight from your garden. With all of these creative uses, you'll never run out of ideas for the fruit you harvest from your cucumber bucket.

Look at that, you’ve got yourself a container garden. Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Safiya Charles at (334) 240-0121 or [email protected] ...

Though others do use potting soil, the growing medium at the skid row garden is not dirt but a soil-less compound, similar to a seed starter. It’s a nutritional mix that is just the right weight ...

ANSWER: Potting soils and potting mixes are the same thing. Most potting materials do not actually have soil (sand/silt/clay) in them. Instead, they are blends of peat moss, vermiculite, perlite ...